When it was suggested that it was more heroic to stick on a job when one realized its dangerous possibilies Miss Diemer refused to accept the alibi, "No," she insisted, "I just jillered my way through. There were fumy things that happened, but I didn't see the humourous side till afterwards.
"For example 1 elected to move from one lat to another on Bloody Saturday, sending my household possessions up Avenue Edward VII that afternoon. They were lost for a week and I didn't know whether they were destroyed by the bomb which fell at the corner of Ya Ya Ching Road or whether they had been stolen in the "For the frst few days T answered the telephone and took messages in a daze, starting at every warlike sound, gradually learned to distinguish antieaireraft guns from bombs and grew more intelligent as to manceuvres but won eternal ignominy by describing an observation balloon as 2 floating bomb! How 1 admired our Amy typist who, whenever she heard sounds of warfare, would rush up on the roof and intrepidly take notes on the action, Villain StI Pursues:
"Even though the fighting has moved away the aftermath of violence remains, Going home from work the other night Iwas held up and robbed. 'A man darted out of the shadows to my rickshaw, snatched my bag and ran up a dark alley. T screamed loud enough to wake the dead and put valkyries to shame, but no one came to the rescue and my passport and papers are gone, My only comfort ig in imagining the annoyance of the thief when he discovered that he had netied only twenty cents "Yes, ax a war correspondent I'm a rabbit,' but now it's over T can truthfully say T wouldn't have missed it for anything."
UsP, Worker hope you don't expect stories of bravery in the front line trenches from me," said vivacious Miss Gra-hom, as she escaped from the busy office of the United Press for tea and talk in the mellow atmosphere of the Cathay Lounge, don't go round discovering plots or beguiling Generals into parting with strateyie secrets so that 1 can tap wires and get out trick messages that decided prove front page scoops, No, I'm only a small part of a big organization that keeps going twen= ty-four hours a day and some of odd jobs have a distinctly feminine, not to say homeside, angle. I've eon called upon to collect a ward~ robe for a war. correspondent north to be taken up to him bya man leaving in three hours, evacuate children whose patents wore away, to find butler to ship to Nanking at nine o'clock at night, have laundry done for busy" men and. the like, "But it's a grand job." admitted Miss Graham, and I think I'm lucky be one of the very few women who are holding responsible posi tions with the U.P. I've the war to thank for that, T arrived in Shangial expecting to stay a month and along came the "incident." Letters of introduction to the U.P, had made them aware of my presence in town and, half-grudgingly though it was, they thought that even a woman night be of some use in the emer xeney: So I stayed on and never Found time to evacuate, "The state of affairs here hax fen ne opportunity for experience could never have collected in the amount of time otherwise,"
continued, "reporting, secretary to the Far yer, all sides of the of the job has Then, too, 1 was lucky enough to be the first Ameri n to broadcast from Chin USA, since the heyinning. of Enquiries eli Miss Graham was born in Rockvill Connecticut, but soon went to Holly= wood, graduated from the Universit of California at Los Angeles. and case two and half years was editorial
in Beverly Hills, She then went to, the Columbis Studios in the publi-
Indeed, the title "Mh: ventures youn son wearied even of Hollywood "and its "process shots" which simulate the backgrounds against which the action of films fs supposed to take place, She began to feel that she wanted to, know the realities of the world and rather, than mere So she. started ind just to the
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